chagall : midsummer night`s dreams

Visual : simulation #1 Marc Chagall
PRESS RELEASE, JAN. 2016
CHAGALL : MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAMS
CARRIÈRES DE LUMIÈRES I LES BAUX-DE-PROVENCE
4 MARCH 2016 - 8 JANUARY 2017 I CARRIERES-LUMIERES.COM
After welcoming over 513,000 visitors for Michelangelo, Leonardo de Vinci, Raphael: The Giants of the Renaissance which
closed its doors on the 3 January last, les Carrières de Lumières in Baux-de-Provence continue their innovative and ambitious
artistic project with a unique multimedia exhibition devoted to Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985). Since their opening, Les Carrières
de Lumières have attracted over 1.6 million visitors.
Produced by Culturespaces with the assistance of the
Comité Marc Chagall, and created by Gianfranco Iannuzzi,
Renato Gatto and Massimiliano Siccardi with the musical
collaboration of Luca Longobardi, this new audio-visual show
offers audiences a remarkable opportunity to discover the
impressive oeuvre of Marc Chagall, an artist of Russian origin
who obtained French nationality in 1937.
Most of the artist’s best-known masterpieces have been
digitized and will be screened on the 5,000 m2 of the former
stone quarry of Les Carrières de Lumières. A spectacular
experience that promises to be a highly memorable one for the
public!
The first show focusing on a single artist at Les Carrières de
Lumières, this new 2016 multimedia exhibition has been
designed as a veritable journey through the major phases of
the artist’s career.
Chagall: Midsummer Night’s Dreams is a story in twelve
parts—Vitebsk, Life, Poetry, Collages, The War, Stained Glass,
The Opéra Garnier, Daphnis and Chloé, Mosaics, The Circus,
Illustrations and The Bible—presenting Chagall’s creativity
in all its diversity, and his multiple sources of inspiration. The
universal themes of love, the family, roots, the landscape,
the circus, war, and music are perfectly showcased within the
wonderful setting that are Les Carrières de Lumières.
For the first time, the close-ups of certain works featured in
the collection of the Musée national Marc Chagall in Nice allow
the visitor to see the artworks in a new light and to appreciate
their depth and expressive richness. In addition to Chagall’s
painted work, the show also reveals his collages, mosaics and
stained glass windows, thereby illustrating the full range of
Chagall’s talents.
The show fills Les Carrières de Lumières with a sea of vibrant
colours, characteristic of the artist’s palette, infusing the site
with a poetic and particularly dynamic atmosphere.
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Visual : simulation #2 Marc Chagall
The choice of the soundtrack accompanying the show has
been guided by pianist Mikhaïl Rudy, a close friend of Marc
Chagall’s. Music and images complement each other allowing
audiences to revel in the majesty of the site. Reproductions of
the artworks come to life on the ground, walls and columns
of Les Carrières de Lumières, transformed into a giant screen
for the occasion.
Thanks to the use of cutting-edge technology, making use
of 100 video projectors and 27 speakers, the spectator truly
‘enters into the work of the artist’, discovering up-close
previously unnoticed or overlooked details.
Chagall’s modernity springs forth from the complexity of
his brushstrokes, the range of his palette of colours, and his
audacious compositions. Les Carrières de Lumières offer a rare
opportunity to explore and discover the artist’s work.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Artistic direction: Gianfranco Iannuzzi
Design and co-production: Gianfranco Iannuzzi, Renato Gatto,
Massimiliano Siccardi
Video animation: Massimiliano Siccardi, Ginevra Napoleoni
Composition and musical arrangement : Luca Longobardi
Produced by Culturespaces
LES CARRIÈRES DE LUMIÈRES
The ‘Val d’Enfer’ is a mysterious place just a stone’s throw
from Les Baux-de-Provence, in the heart of the Alpilles. This
valley with outstanding solid mineral deposits has long inspired
artists. It provided the setting for Dante’s Divine Comedy, and
Gounod created his opera Mireille here. Later, Cocteau came
to film The Testament of Orpheus in these very quarries.
The Carrières du Val d’Enfer are a classified site. The Carrières
du Val d’Enfer quarry was created over the years for extracting
the white limestone used in the construction of the Chateau
and Les Baux-de-Provence.
THE AMIEX® CONCEPT
For the past four years, the Carrières de Lumières have been a
wonderful testbed for Culturespaces, enabling it to develop its
innovative arts popularization concept: AMIEX® (Art & Music
Immersive Experience). The concept is based on creating a
multimedia show unlike any other, created from thousands
of digitized images of works of art with a fibre optic network
used to show them at very high resolution and that move in
time with the music to create a scenario imbued with poetical
beauty.
AMIEX® creates this scenario thanks to a high-technology video
installation, working with a spatial sound system calibrated
to the nature of this protected natural site. The AMIEX®
installation is tailor-made to mould perfectly to the venue
where it is used. ‘I would like to offer visitors an alternative
cultural experience where they are no longer passive spectators
but actively enter the very heart of the artwork, as if the latter
were an immense stage and the visitor an active participant in
the performance. When I see children playing with the images
on the ground or couples dancing to the music at the quarry, I
feel we have met our objective’ says Gianfranco Iannuzzi.
Having already enchanted more than 1,6 million visitors in
4 years (239 000 visitors in 2012, 373 000 in 2013, 483 000
in 2014 and 507 000 in 2015), the AMIEX® concept is to be
developed in other sites, in France and internationally.
KEY FIGURES
Surface area for projection : 5.000 m²
Height of projection : 6 to 14 m
Show duration : 40 minutes
Number of images projected per show: about 3.000
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VISUALS FOR PRESS
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1 I Simulation #1 Marc Chagall [ 1. La Danse, 1950-52, détail 2. Songe d’une nuit d’été, 1939, détail 3. Bella au col blanc, 1917, détail 4. Le cirque
rouge, 1956-60, détail 5. Les amoureux, 1916, détail 6. Au-dessus de la ville, 1914-18, détail 7. Les amoureux, 1952, détail ]
© Adagp, Paris, 2016 - Cliché : Banque d’Images de l’ADAGP
2 I CHAGALL Marc, Le Violoncelliste, 1939. Collection particulière © Adagp, Paris, 2016
3 I CHAGALL Marc, La Branche, 1977. Collection particulière © Adagp, Paris, 2016
4 I CHAGALL Marc, La Branche, 1956-1962. © Adagp, Paris, 2016
5 I CHAGALL Marc, A Midi l’été (Daphnis et Chloé), 1954-66. Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris © Centre Pompidou,
MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Philippe Migeat © Adagp, Paris, 2016 © Adagp, Paris, 2016 - Cliché : Banque d’Images de l’ADAGP
6 I Simulation #2 Marc Chagall [ 1. Au-dessus de la ville, 1914-18, détail 2. Le violoniste bleu, 1947, détail 3. Songe d’une nuit d’été, 1939, détail
4. Double portrait au verre de vin, 1917-18, détail 5. Saint-Paul dans la nuit bleue, 1970, détail 6. La nuit d’Orgeval, 1949, détail 7. La Promenade,
1917-1918, détail 8. Bouquet blanc sur fond rouge, 1970-1975, détail 9. Gouache préparatoire pour la lithographie Sirène et poisson, 1956-1960 ;
10. Couple au bord de l’eau, 1954; 11. Saint Germain des Prés, 1953 ; 12.
Les amoureux de Vence, 1957, détail ]
© ADAGP, Paris, 2016 - Clichés : Banque d’Images de l’ADAGP - Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Adam Rzepka Christie’s Images / The Bridgeman Art Library
© Gianfranco Iannuzzi
MENTIONS FOR THE PRESS
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CULTURESPACES.
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PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Les Carrières de Lumières
Route de Maillane, F-13520 Les Baux-de-Provence
http://carrieres-lumieres.com
http://culturespaces.com
Rate :
11 € / reduced rate : 9 €
Offers for families: Free entry for the second childe
aged 7 to 17 when two adults and one child entry
have been bought
Opening times :
January - March - November - December : 10 am - 6 pm
April - May - June - September - October : 9.30 am - 7 pm
July - August : 9.30 am - 7.30 pm
The cafeteria, the book and gift shop
are open during the Carrières’ opening hours.
Access :
Carrières de Lumières are located 800 m from the Château des
Baux-de-Provence,
15 km north-east of Arles
and 30 km south of Avignon.
Carrières de Lumières are accessible to visitors
in wheelchairs.
AND AROUND...
Chagall et la Musique
5 March - 13 June
Musée national Marc Chagall / Nice
Marc Chagall - le cirque
2 May - 29 September
Musée Yves Brayer / Les Baux-de-Provence
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